Zareef Ahmed

A polyglot programmer and enterprise architect having hands on experience in Ruby,Python, PHP, Perl, Java and many other languages. Specialist in Devops, Cloud migration and implementation on Amazon Cloud (AWS), Google Cloud (GCP) and Microsoft Azure along with Hadoop programming for big data processing.

Using PHP and Java in the Same App with PHP/Java Bridge

In this article you will learn how to install and configure the PHP/Java Bridge and how to use Java classes in PHP scripts in a demo application. To use the PHP/Java bridge, you should have knowledge of Java SE and the PHP5 core, as well as how they interact.

PHP 4 supported an extension for combining PHP with Java, but to combine PHP with Java in PHP 5 you should install the PHP/Java Bridge, which the website describes as:”… an implementation of a streaming, XML-based network protocol, which can be used to connect a native script engine, for example PHP, Scheme or Python, with a Java virtual machine.”